Whether looking scary or ravishing for Halloween, your look needs to include the eyes, the windows to your soul. With a few touches of makeup to the eyes, you can be a ghoul, a scary doll, a vampire, a fairy or something else altogether. This article will suggest some Halloween eye makeup styles and how to put them on.

Steps

Method1

Freaky doll eyes

1

Apply white face paint in a circle racing from just below your eyebrows to a centimetre below your eye. Then draw around it in eyeliner.

2

Add a pupil. Somewhere in the circle, preferably quite near the edge, draw a small black dot for a pupil.

3

Add eyelashes. At the top and the bottom of each circle draw long, exaggerated, cartoon-like eyelashes. When you close your eyes, it will look like you have massive eyes, in the style of the Tim Burton movies.

4

Finish the look on the rest of your face. Apply lighter foundation than you normally would so you look pale and ghostly. Also apply the foundation to your lips and eyebrows until they blend in with the rest of your face.

If wished, draw a red heart in the middle of your lips with bright red lipstick––think Helena Bonham-Carter as the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland.

5

Re-draw your eyebrows with a dark brown eyebrow pencil.

6

Use cream blusher or pink lipstick to a circle on each cheek. Then blend it in slightly so that it looks almost natural.

7

Add more features if wished. Add cartoon freckles with eyeliner, or wear your hair in two French plaits like a doll. Wear kitten heels and a cute tutu-dress to complete the look.

Method2

Smoky witch eyes

1

Create smoky eyes. Line the outside of your lids with a dark purple shade that is almost black. Draw the line along your eyelid crease and connect it to the outside of your eyelid.

2

Add a darker gold shade to your lids to make them pop out more.

3

Line the bottoms and tops of your lids with black liner.

For a more extreme and spooky look, you can use dark red liner instead.

Method4

Fairy eyes

1

Apply base colour.Apply black eyeshadow all over your eyelid. You can use a shade stick or a normal eyeshadow swab. Go from the lash line to the crease, and when you come to the end, just flick it out a little. Don't go past the end of your eyebrow.

2

Apply the base color on the bottom. Put a little bit on the bottom, just bring it down, then come along on the bottom lash line. You don't want it too thick, so just slightly drag it across. Don't touch the skin too much.

3

Apply the first eyeshadow. Choose a shimmery, violet shade. Put that all over the top of the black eyeshadow. Just gently drag it over, using a brush. Don't worry if you cover that black eyeshadow up too much––you've got your basic drawing for how you want it to go. Go right up into the brow bone.

4

Apply the second eyeshadow. Apply a little bit of a slightly darker blue or violet shade on the inside corners with a brush. Then blend across into the existing eyeshadow.

5

Apply the third eyeshadow. Apply a little bit of light blue or aqua eyeshadow to the lower lash line, just under the black eyeshadow. This will result in darkness next to your lash line, and then the bright eyeshadow just underneath.

6

Define the lash line. Apply a thin layer of eyeliner just along the top lash line. Smudge it in, as close to the lash line as you possibly can.

7

Apply liquid eyeliner. Pick up where you left off at the corner, and create a swirl. You can do as many as you want. It doesn't have to be completely symmetrical on each side, just as long as you get the idea of the twirls.